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Philanthropy

  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
    US philanthropists move hundreds of millions to UK to avoid Trump threats

    American donors take precautionary action after president vows to pursue those supporting liberal causes

    The National Gallery and St Martin-in-the-Fields church viewed from Trafalgar Square with crowds of people in the plaza.
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    Gates Foundation
    Gates Foundation skews global health agenda after US retreat, study says

    World Health Organization’s priorities tilted by reliance on charitable foundation, according to research

    Bill Gates speaks and gestures with his hands while seated on stage at the Global Business Forum.
  • Friday, 17 October, 2025
    HTSI
    From Annabel’s to the Amazon: why Patricia Caring is giving back her millions

    The Caring Family Foundation is fighting deforestation, abuse and poverty. It’s a very personal cause, explains its founder

    Katie Beeching (left) and Patricia Caring with members of the Puyanawa Indigenous community
  • Wednesday, 15 October, 2025
    FT WealthClare Maurice
    Philanthropy can help mitigate Budget inheritance tax increases

    Charitable giving can act as a tax move, a family glue and a social benefit

    Stylised illustration depicting tax savings, with a hand adding coins to a jar integrated into the word “TAX” on an orange field.
  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    The Art Market
    The Courtauld gets a £30mn boost

    Gift from the billionaire Reuben brothers’ family foundation will be ‘transformative’ for the London arts institute and gallery

    Lisa Reuben and Mark Hallett sit on a bench in an art gallery, with a framed painting on the wall behind them.
  • Friday, 10 October, 2025
    Chris Hohn
    Chris Hohn’s foundation blames ‘policy environment’ as it stops giving to US charities

    Billionaire hedge fund manager’s CIFF has focused donations on issues such as climate change

  • Monday, 6 October, 2025
    News in-depthUS politics & policy
    ‘Enormous fear’: Trump’s threats against Soros chill US non-profits

    Civil society groups funded by billionaire’s charitable foundation feel vulnerable to administration’s attacks

    Montage of George Soros and Donald Trump
  • Saturday, 4 October, 2025
    Josh Spero
    Why I welcome Americanisation. Sorry, Americanization

    News of the British Museum’s fundraising gala smacks of the sort of imitation and assimilation we’re good at

    FT montage including pictures of Diana Ross at the Met Ball and a Halloween Parade in Manchester against a background of the US and British flags
  • Thursday, 2 October, 2025
    HTSI
    ‘You must not give up’: the last testament of Jane Goodall

    The conservationist led a 65-year fight to raise eco awareness. She gave the Financial Times one of her final interviews

    Jane Goodall photographed among trees at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society’s museum in July
  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
    News in-depth
    US philanthropists bring big-money giving habit to UK institutions

    Gifts worth £150mn to the National Gallery are the latest of many large-scale donations in recent years

    A person sits facing Matteo di Giovanni’s The Assumption of the Virgin, a large painting on gold ground, at the National Gallery.
  • Friday, 5 September, 2025
    How To Give It
    How Bamboo Bicycle Club is helping to break the prison cycle

    Meet the engineer inspiring inmates to forge a new future

    Bamboo Bicycle Club founder James Marr
  • Friday, 29 August, 2025
    Photography
    San Francisco without the rich: a photo-essay

    Pulitzer Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer on what Joshua Amirthasingh’s photographs say about how wealth has shaped the city

    Yellow classic car parked on a foggy street in a residential neighbourhood.
  • Thursday, 14 August, 2025
    HTSI
    Introducing Larder, the kitchen you can carry on a Lime Bike

    The portable pantry aims to bring fresh food to the heart of the community

    Larder can be carried behind an e-bike
  • Wednesday, 16 July, 2025
    How To Give It
    Six summery ways to give it

    Watermelon prints for Palestine, Anni Albers textiles and a carpet of flower sculptures

    Printmaker Alex Booker in the studio
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    FT Wealth
    The dos and don’ts of donating art to museums

    Major institutions are becoming more selective about the work that they will accept — and often want cash too

    Man in a blazer sits at a table with a drill, backed by abstract art and books in a softly lit room
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    HTSI
    Margot, the homeware store that has taught 300,000 children how to cook

    Inside the pioneering non-profit selling carafes and cups for classes

    Amanda Grant, co-founder of Cook School and Margot, supervising a class of children
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    FT Wealth
    Philanthropists find new ways to give in the face of Trump’s opposition

    Responses include financial support for democracy programmes and building alliances

    Stylised image of Donald Trump’s face integrated into a clenched fist gripping a crumpled dollar bill, as a dark hand reaches towards the money
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    InterviewFT Wealth
    Walmart heir Lukas Walton’s $15bn bet on the environment

    With an estimated worth of $39bn, he wants to use market mechanisms to save the oceans

    Portrait of a man with short curly hair and a beard wearing jeans, a casual blue shirt over a T-shirt. His arms are folded and he look into the camera
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    FT Wealth
    French charities turn to UK philanthropists as the state retreats at home

    ‘We are where the US was 100 years ago and where the UK was 50 years ago,’ says one fundraiser in France

    Cartoon-style Mona Lisa holding a bowler hat filled with British money, framed against a pink pastel wall
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Moral Money
    Bill Gates’s $200bn giveaway challenges billionaires who ‘die rich’

    Microsoft co-founder plans to give away ‘virtually all’ his wealth over the next 20 years

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  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    The Economics Show podcast28 min listen
    Bill Gates: how international development can survive the Trump presidency

    The former Microsoft CEO has $200bn to give away. Will the US help him?

  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    Bill Gates is giving away $200bn. Can his plans survive in the Trump era?

    The philanthropist intends to spend his fortune over the next 20 years. But government budget cuts threaten his ambitions in global health

    Montage image of Bill Gates, Donald Trump and Elon Musk
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    InterviewGates Foundation
    Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts

    Billionaire reopens feud with Tesla chief as he unveils plan to spend $200bn on philanthropy and close foundation in 2045

    Bill Gates
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    FT SeriesIntroducing Phoebe Philo’s HTSI guest edit
    The Grenfell quilt that’s eight years in the making

    Textile artist Tuesday Greenidge is honouring the lives lost in the 2017 fire – one embroidered panel at a time

  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    The Art Market
    Funding London’s art schools: is this £6mn donation a blueprint for future philanthropy?

    A major gift from arts donor Peter L Kellner comes at a vital time for Goldsmiths, whose alumni include Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Steve McQueen

    A framed red painting has four neat vertical slashes in the canvas
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